Wringer



April 14, 1925. 1,533,861

' c. c. HOWE WRINGER Filed Sept 2. 1921 Patented Apr. 14, 1925.

. UNITED STATES 1,533,861 PATENT OFFICE.

CHESTER C. HOWE, OF NEW KENSINGTC-N, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE AS- SIGNMENTS, TO THE BRUSH WASHING MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW KENSINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

WRINGER.

Application filed September 2, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHESTER C. Hown, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Kensington, in the county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wringers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes wringers, and its object is to provide a device for returning the water which is squeezed out of the clothes or other articles to the tub or receptacle from which the clothes have been removed. 1

in using wringers, particularly reversible power driven wringers usually provided on domestic washing machines, it is the usual practice to put clothes through the wringer from either side. In the wringers that are now in general use, the water that is squeezed out can drop to the floor, or flow into tubs at either side of the wringer. F or instance, when clothes are being passed from the wash water to rinsing water through a wringer, the soiled soapy water is liable to drain into the clean rinsing water.

On many wringers, a reversible drain board is provided by means of which the water may be directed to either side of the wringer, but these must be manually operated. If the operator forgets to properly adjust the drain board, the water may drain into the receptacle for the clothes that have been wrung. I

The present invention contemplates the provision of a drain board which will be automatically shifted when the wringer is reversed.

My invention may be understood fromthe accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view, partly in section and partly in elevation, of a wringer provided with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section on line IL-TT of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a similar section on line TIT-TH.

In the drawings, A represents a wringer of any suitable type having end frame members 5, a cross bar 6, upper and lower rollers 7 and 8, respectively, and at 9 is a cross rod for connecting the end members 5. Rod 9 is spaced 2. short distance belowthe lower roll 8.

13 indicates generally my improved drain Serial No. 497,824.

device. It preferably comprises an integral casting having oppositely sloping drain surfaces 10 which are coextensive with or of slightly greater length than the rolls. At the end edges of the drain surfaces are vertical flanges 11. The two sloping surfaces terminate adjacent the rod 9, but the flanges are connected by circular portions 12 having openings therein through which the rod passes, thus supporting the drain surfaces. Secured to the end members 5 of the wringer frame are lugs 13 which extend under the sloplng surfaces 10, thereby preventing the surfaces from rocking.

For catching the water which drips down from the rolls, and directing it on to the proper one of the sloping surfaces 10, a 'reversible drain board 15 is provided. It is preferably formed of metal with integral flanges 16 at the end edges thereof. On the bottom thereof are two or more depending lugs 17 having openings therethrough to receive the rod 9 and thereby slidably and rotatably support the drain board 15. Extending up from one of the side flanges 16 is a wiper 18 adapted to bear against one end of the lower roll 8. A compression spring 19 coiled about rod 9 and interposed between the end of the drain board 15 and the side of the wringer serves to hold the wiper in frictional contact with the end of the roll 8. The wiper 18 does not extend above the center of the roll 8, and preferably engages against only the lower portion of the end of the roll.

When the rolls are revolving in the direction of the arrows in Fig. 3, the reversible drain board 15 will be shifted in the direction indicated by the arrow shown on the wiper, which direction is opposite to the direction of rotation of the lower roll, and the water squeezed out from the wringer will be caught on the board 15 and will flow down the inclined surface thereof onto the inclined surface 10. Thus, the board 15 will automatically be tilted to direct the water falling thereon on to the side of the wringer into which the clothes are being fed, thereby returning the water to the receptacle from which the clothes have been removed,

and none of the water so squeezed out can flow onto the other side of the wringer. When the rolls are reversed, the reversible drain board will automatically be tilted in the opposite direction by reason of the wiper 18 engaging the lower part of the end of roll 8.

Various changes and modifications may be made in the construction shown and within the contemplation of the present invention.

Vhat I claim is:

l. The combination with a wringer having a pair of rolls, of a reversible drain hoard disposed beneath the rolls, and means for automatically shifting the drain board when the direction of the rolls is reversed, said means including a spring pressed wiper disposed in proximity to the end of the roll and frictionally engaging the end face thereof.

2. The combination with a wringer having a pair of rolls, of a drain board pivotally supported beneath the rolls, and means for automatically rocking the drain board in a direction opposite the direction of to tation of the lower roll, said means including a wiper carried by the drain board and frictionally engaging an end face of a roll.

3. The combination with a wringer having a pair of rolls, of a reversible drain board pivotally supported beneath the rolls and having a limited movement co-axially thereof, an extension at one end of the drain board adapted to contact with an end face of the lower roll, and means for yieldably urging said drain board in a direction to hold said extension in frictional contact with said end face of the roll.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature.

.ennsrnn c. HOWE. 

